At its worst, catatonia in autism can lead to immobility, dependence for all daily living and become life-threatening. Studies suggest between 12-18% of autistic people may show varying levels of catatonia. Darren Devine reports.
Category: learning disability
LDToday blog: We have opened the Valentine’s can of worms – have you?
Blog by Dr Claire Bates on the latest phase of the Supported Loving campaign revealing ingrained cultural barriers to enabling love and sex that are often going unchallenged.
Steve Broach blog: Mendip House – not ‘safeguarding’ failures but rights violations
I struggle to see how the kind of treatment of the residents at Mendip House described in the Safeguarding Adults Review** can be anything other than inhuman and degrading – and thereby prohibited by Article 3 of the European Convention on Human Rights.
